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Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance totaled 332,000 for the week ending September 11, a rise of 22,000 from the previous week’s revised tally of 310,000. The four-week average fell 4,250 to 335,750, the lowest of the pandemic. The number of ongoing claim...

The recovery in household income has been notably soft relative to recoveries over the past 50 years. If personal income’s rebound remains unusually weak, as it has so far, there will be a cost for the US economy, perhaps in the form of softer-than-expected gains in consumer sp...

The U.S. Census Bureau released its annual estimate for median household income in the U.S. for the 2020 calendar year on 14 September 2021. Census Bureau analysts have estimated that had they been able to collect a more complete data sample, they would have estimated median household...

A new survey from IHS Markit reveals that US equity investors' risk appetite has deteriorated to the worst level recorded over the past year as concerns mount over the ongoing pandemic and investors perceive falling equity market support from monetary and fiscal policy. The survey's R...

Remember the dire forecasts of inflation acceleration a few months ago. Fingers pointed at car prices and rental car rates. Now look. Remember the lumber price spike? Look at it now. The biggest and quickest cure for high and accelerating price rise effects is the actual price hike it...

The rate of inflation is starting to peak and move lower. The decline in durables inflation will more than offset the increase in services and rent inflation. The combination of durable inflation and commodity price inflation declining will push the rate of inflation lower. ...

Vehicle related inflation made essentially no contribution, while pandemic-related services deducted (in a mechanical, accounting sense). For those worried about a wage-price spiral coming through shelter costs, Owner’s Equivalent Rent (OER) growth remained steady, while Rent o...

Is the stock market’s trending behavior changing? Are the winning streaks running longer and the corrections becoming shorter? Although this data isn’t overwhelmingly convincing, it does point in the direction that winning streaks are running longer while losing streaks ...

The AIER Everyday Price Index increased by 0.4 percent in August, half the pace of the 0.8 percent gain in each of the prior three months and the first month with less than a 0.5 percent rise since November 2020. The positive contributors were again widespread in August outnumbering n...

Interest rates are falling following the weaker CPI reading. Rates are likely to fall even further as the economy continues to slow. However, this time falling rates won't result in growth stocks rising. For further details see: Falling Rates Won't Save Growth Stocks Thi...